Manitowoc County flu cases at high level

8:06 PM,
Jan. 14, 2014

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HTR Media

Manitowoc County has had "seven reports of influenza-related hospitalizations since the first of the year, five of them over the weekend. These were patients that you normally wouldn't expect. Usually we see it in the very old or very young, but these people are mostly in the middle ages," said Amy Wergin, the health department's public health nurse manager.

Manitowoc is among the counties in northeastern Wisconsin that have a high level of flu cases, said the latest report from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Flu ...